I am almost sure that it is not any more useful to take care about the 1024
cylinder limit, at least since mdk7.1 release that I installed last year on the
second half of a 20GB drive, shared with WIN9x. It ran happily.
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Patrick Bussi
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"B.V.L.S.Prasad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 22/05/2001 10:06:53
Pour : Todd Flinders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Objet : Re: [expert] Can Linux handle 90 gigs?
I dont think it will be a problem...
except take care that while partitioning ,
the /boot partitioning ,
the cylinder numbering should not exceed 1024..
ofcourse this partitioning logic is a bit old...
thats all...everything else will fit ..well..
may be present boot loaders will take care of
the higher numbers....I dont know..
atleast upto 40GB I dont have any problems...
prasad
On Mon, 21 May 2001, Todd Flinders wrote:
> Hello:
>
> I want to purchase two 60 gig IBM 60GXP ATA/100 hard
> drives and a 3ware RAID controller. I will give 30
> gigs to Windows and 90 gigs to Linux.
>
> Is that going to be a problem? Will there be any
> necessary partitioning or parameters to allow Linux to
> see the 90 gigs? Do I need to do anything special to
> install the 3ware controller card? I believe the
> driver for this card is built into the kernel.
>
> I will be using Linux Mandrake 8.0 PowerPack.
>
> Thanks so much for the help. I'd love to avoid a
> headache ahead of time.
>
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